I work at the Waco Mammoth Site, one of only six in-situ fossil sites in the U.S. It is exactly what it says on the tin—it's in Waco, and it has mammoths!

Our mammoths are not woolly mammoths. It seems that as long as Texas has been in its current location, it has always been hot, so it wasn't a good place for woollies. We have Columbian mammoths instead, which were second only to steppe mammoths in size. The males averaged 14 feet (about 4 meters) at the shoulder! They lived during the Pleistocene epoch, going extinct only 10,000 years ago.

Minty is standing across from Mammoth Q, our male who we nicknamed Quincy. He is located under the platform, and the mural is based off his measurements.

As I make these posts, I will talk about some of our different fossils, how these animals died, and different aspects of my job. This will act as filler art on weeks when a comic isn't possible. I'm excited!

So the large mammals ranged across all of North America? And there were many different *types* across all of North America? Why does that make sense when you think about it for more than 5 seconds? Growing up where it was a heck of a lot colder all I heard about was wooly mammoth and wooly rhino and wooly other things, along with giant sloths and saber-toothed cats and the like. So I always *assumed* that they were always creatures *just* based around where I lived. This is so cool! Thanks for doing this!

Thank you! It's so much fun to learn new things from professionals who love their work, particularly things I wouldn't have thought to investigate on my own. Add me to the list of people who never knew that non-wooly mammoths existed.

This is so cool! I am glad you're doing this; I enjoy the comic a lot, but this is also going to be a lot of fun! I grew up wanting to be a geologist, then a paleontologist, but then I realized I was burned out on school. I'm slowly working towards a dietetics degree now, since nutrition is one of my greatest passions now-a-days, but I still love prehistoric stuff too. :] Thanks for posting your (Minty's) adventures for us!

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